Special on Agencement.
Agencement is Hideaki Shimada (1962, Japan). He makes violin improvisations since 1980. In 1985, he started his solo project Agencement, in which he combines several layers of violin improvisations using tape recorders. In live situations, he plays a violin amplified with electronics. Agencement has 2 LPs and 2 CDs released at the label Pico. Untitled (Side 1) is a work from his second LP at that label. Chimère and Meguro are recorded in Gambetta, Tokyo on 18 November 2001. Maceration is on a compilation with Japanese experimental music, which was released at the legendary American label RRR and Cosmoraine is on a noise compilation which is compiled by Michio Teshima; the boss of the Japanese label Vanilla Records.
Track 1
Artist: Kiyoshi Mizutani / Hideaki Shimada / Kiyoharu Kuwayama
Title: Chimère 1 (2001)
Duration: 10:15
Album Title: Gambetta
Label: Monochrome Vision
Catalogue#: mv27
Format: CD
Country of release: Russia
Year of release: 2008
Track 2
Artist: Kiyoshi Mizutani / Hideaki Shimada / Kiyoharu Kuwayama
Title: Chimère 2 (2001)
Duration: 7:13
Album Title: Gambetta
Label: Monochrome Vision
Catalogue#: mv27
Format: CD
Country of release: Russia
Year of release: 2008
Track 3
Artist: Agencement
Title: Maceration
Duration: 4:49
Album Title: Noise & Junk Omnibus
Label: RRRecords
Catalogue#: RRR-CD-03
Format: CD Compilation
Country of release: US
Year of release: 1991
Track 4
Artist: Agencement
Title: Untitled (Side 1)
Duration: 24:58
Album Title: Agencement
Label: Pico
Catalogue#: Pico 02
Format: LP
Country of release: Japan
Year of release: 1989
Track 5
Artist: Kiyoshi Mizutani / Hideaki Shimada / Kiyoharu Kuwayama
Title: Meguro (2001)
Duration: 10:35
Album Title: Gambetta
Label: Monochrome Vision
Catalogue#: mv27
Format: CD
Country of release: Russia
Year of release: 2008
Track 6
Artist: Agencement
Title: Cosmoraine
Duration: 1:29
Album Title: Come Again II
Label: Furnace
Catalogue#: SR9342
Format: CD Compilation
Country of release: US
Year of release: 1993
